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Considering they alluded to more story at the end of the first series, and we got 2wei, and they've definitely been alluding to stuff with Miyu and something screwy with the Grail War during 2wei, it only makes sense that we'd get a 3rei.

Here's to hoping for some Unlimited Blade Works action (don't care if it's from Kuro or Shirou, though Shirou doing it would be awesome).

That makes sense given here the Einzberns, Makiri and Tohsaka did not cooperate as far as we know.

Einzberns provides the grail. Hence Kiritsugu's rebellion here. Unlike his Fate Stay Zero version saving his family was more important than saving the world. He can't sacrifice either Irisviel or Illya.

The Tohsaka's provides the land where the Fuyuki grail war should have been. Rin is ignorant of any such history.

The Makiri/Matou invented the Servant system. We only know a Sakura Matou exists.

I'm betting in Drei we'll get the Matou's into the picture. And it relates to Miyu being a vessel for the grail much like Sakura was planned to be by Zouken.

That would replace their lost "Archer" Card that is someplace inside Kuro.

There were really only two options for what the 8th card would be. This, or...

Spoiler:

False Assassin, since we randomly got an Assassin card based on the 4th War's Assassin instead of the 5th war's one. And the one they chose obviously fills the problem that you specified, which I figured would occur as soon as they mentioned an 8th card.

Well there is one other possibility, a holdover from the Third War....but there would have had to be a war for it to happen.

Spoiler for Third War:

Avenger.
Though he's suppose to be in the Grail or something after the war because he's techically "evil". Though it would make sense with the "evil" cards they gathered...or the "evil" spirits that the cards summoned such as Rider and Caster. And perhaps why the heroic spirits are all corrupted versions so far. Though Gil doesn't look corrupted....just female.

Well they did establish Sakura being around in one side episode. Her being there resparked the competition for Shirou in Rin and Luvia...after the blew the crap out of him of course. So were there is Sakura there is potentally Zouken. If he's not long dead. Would there be a reason for him to live that long without the Wars?

Shirou still seems to get into Harem lead situations even though he's techically not the lead anymore. It does seem all the girls want him in some way. But Illya seems to be gaining her own yuri harem at the same time, as fitting her main character status.

They've also said that the cards are unrelated to the Grail War (which makes sense, since the Grail War using the normal summoning approach), so it's possible that Zouken was behind the creation of the cards in the first place. It fits with what the Makiri gave to the process of the war, what with the binding and all.

All we really know is that they broke off around the time that the first war would've been, and it was known that they were aiming for a ritual. It's quite possible that they had been in talks with the Makiri and Tohsaka about the war, but broke it off before the grail's actual creation rather than after like in regular continuity.

Following this train of thought, there's a chance that all sides still met back then (including Zelretch), prior to the Einzbern isolating themselves. After their isolation, they may have still created the grail itself, but had no way of going about performing the ritual since they had neither the land nor means of providing mana. Flash foward and they feel that they found a way using Irisviel and Ilya, but they were stopped.

Spoiler for spoiler image, in case anyone was unclear on what the 8th card would be:

Spoiler for Volume 5 (chapter 23++):

That's not Gilgamesh, but a new character who installed the Archer card (Gil ver.) from I can gather.

The 8th card was Gil, who turned into shota Gil after Illya removed the mud:

Needless to say, Miya and Illya were very shocked by that

Gil discusses with them and makes it clear he knows Miyu. Before he says anything more about her, Miyu attempts to kill him to silence him, but he defends against her attacks effortlessly (by using some kind of mirrors... first time I've seen that). He then reveals Miyu is from a parallel world. He explains a bunch of other stuff too, but I can't read it.

I don't have the raw where the two new girls show up so I don't know what happened to Gil. I hope he survived, he'd make a great addition to the cast.

The chibi next to fem-Gil isn't Enkidu, but some random who's likely using the Berserker card. And if the taller one is using the Gilgamesh card, then I'd assume Gil isn't going to be part of the cast. That, or he somehow split from the card.